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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphoric comparison does Kennedy make to John Quincey Adams' Puritanism?
(a) A conflict of interests.
(b) The east coast, craggy, rocky, somber and strong.
(c) A mighty ship in a storm.
(d) Kennedy's Catholicism.

2. What is Kennedy's third pressure that he feels is the most damaging?
(a) Making decisions when you do not have enough information to make good ones.
(b) Making decisions when a fellow Senator or Congressman needs to get a pet project going.
(c) Making decisions when to satisfy a constituancy will not be what is best for the nation.
(d) Making decisions that will satisfy everyone in one way or another.

3. What is the example of some advice Kennedy received when he first became a Congressman?
(a) The way to get along is to go along.
(b) The way to go is to make your own decisions.
(c) Listen and do what the majority are doing.
(d) Follow the yellow brick road.

4. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?
(a) Being watchdogs on everything the official does.
(b) Being articulate and able to sway the public.
(c) Being able to get medial coverage without a budget.
(d) Not needing money to get their message across.

5. What metaphor does Kennedy use to describe the relationship between the elected official and the electorate?
(a) A coach-team relationship.
(b) A lawyer-client relationship.
(c) A father-child relationship.
(d) A doctor-patient relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?

2. How does Kennedy characterize the difficult position of the elected official?

3. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?

4. In terms of service in office of both father and son, what similarity set them apart from presidents before and after them?

5. What leader who was at odds with Adams' father did John Quincey find himself agreeing with quite often?

(see the answer key)

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